SHILOH — Staff at Shiloh Medical Group, Shiloh Market and Marlboro Farm Market are trying to piece together a puzzle of crime left by a burglar down Route 49 between midnight and 2 a.m. on Jan. 4.

“I know it’s the same guy with all three,” said Kenny Harris Jr., son of the owner at Marlboro Farm Market & Garden Center.

“Especially, I’m 100 percent sure of Shiloh Market because he left our place at 12:26 and was there at Shiloh Market, three miles down the road, four minutes later. They’re definitely related.”

Harris said about eight residents called Marlboro Market offering information after seeing photos from surveillance video taken inside there from midnight to 12:26 a.m. last Wednesday.

Suggested culprits included an off-season crabber from the surrounding area, based on speculation at the burglar’s clothing and features. Three of the calls to Marlboro Market from residents named the same individual, “but State Police kinda ruled him out,” Harris said, though police would not confirm or deny this information on Monday.

“I believe the police had a suspect and went to their house but pretty much put him to the bottom of the list,” said Harris. “They told my father this morning at the Bridgeton barracks they were checking on another subject. I would think someone would have to see that person (on video) and know who it was.”

Harris said he’d supplied the police with copies of the surveillance video, which is a bit more clear than the still shots, and would also make arrangements for others to view the footage at Marlboro Market by calling him at (856) 451-3138.

Special to The NewsA burglar was captured on surveillance video at Marlboro Farm Market taking carts and baskets of merchandise, as well as money and a cash register, out the back door.

“One thing we are still waiting on is for the results on the cigarette and beer bottle to come back,” Harris noted, referring to items apparently left behind by the burglar. “The police said they sent it out for forensics, which takes a few weeks.”

Office manager Sharon at Shiloh Medical Group said she hadn’t even been aware of the burglary at Marlboro Market, three miles away, until a locksmith made mention of the news when he came to her office to change the locks.

“When I saw the video from the one at Marlboro, it was like a long-handled screwdriver or something he was using, and that appears to be the same width, the same size, as it looks like what was used to pry the back door here,” said Sharon, who declined to give her last name.

Within two hours of roughly $1,850 in cash, snacks and equipment being stolen from Marlboro, a burglar made off with an iPad, money and “a big container of lollipops” from the Shiloh Medical Group, Sharon said.

“Nothing else was bothered. Nothing was moved, nothing destroyed — almost like they knew where to look,” she added.

At Shiloh Market, where an alarm system seems to have scared a would-be burglar off before he could enter the building, new security cameras have been installed to capture views all around the market and at each entrance, said staff Dolly Baldwin.

“(The manager) also secured the side door more, where the guy tried to get in and set the alarm off, and he put extra locks on it so it’s harder to get in,” said Baldwin.

Despite Harris reporting frustration at an officer in Woodstown initially telling him he had no information on the Shiloh incidents but “saw it on the news,” Detective Sgt. Brian Smith of the Bridgeton barracks said on Monday that the two stations are working together on these cases.

No further information on the three Wednesday morning incidents was publicly available through the police on Monday, but Smith said by the end of the week, “hopefully we will have an arrest, and then you can have all the information you want.”

Harris noted he hadn’t been expecting so many people to spread the word — and images — of the Marlboro Market burglary when he posted it to the Marlboro Farm Market & Garden Center Facebook page on Wednesday evening, but he’s glad it “exploded” online like it did.

In the five days after the original post was put online, nearly 200 people had shared the information and surveillance photos directly from the Marlboro Market page with each of their lists of Facebook friends.

“I was getting ready to go to bed when I posted it up, but then I was up for three hours and kept checking it and checking it. I don’t think anything could do better right now to get the word out there,” Harris said. “This was a pretty small incident, but hopefully this is going to scare out people from doing this kind of thing again.”

Anyone with information on these crimes is asked to contact the NJ State Police in Bridgeton at (856) 451-0101 or in Woodstown at (856) 769-0775.

Information can also be shared with Marlboro Market by calling (856) 451-3138 or emailing MarlboroFarm@aol.com.